How are we going to treat non-software ideas?

[KOLANICH]

Question or proposed change

open-source-ideas is now looks like it is software centered.

But there may be projects not about software, but also about creating, sharing and acquiring knowledge, which substantial parts are real world objects (i.e. hardware) costing real money.

How are we going to treat such projects? There are several options:
a) say they are out of scope;
b) create another repo and bug tracker for them;
c) or use the main issue tracker for them, probably requires renaming and some new labels.

[FredrikAugust]

I suppose the easiest solution, and the one which doesn't segregate the two user bases, would be to add a (or several) new labels for these kinds of projects. Since this is hosted on GitHub, I suspect most ideas and users will have some technical background, so I suspect this category of ideas will be rather small in comparison.

What are your thoughts regarding this, @KOLANICH?

[KOLANICH]

IMHO then we need the following labels:

• new gadget (a device of a kind of consumer electronics, targeted to ordinary people)
• reverse engineering (or maybe just reversing)
• cyberphysical (robot, scada, vehicle, etc...)
• chemistry
• experiment
• diy (for making low-cost qnalogues of expensive stuff, like lab equipment)
• equipment (not consumer electronics, targeted to businesses, researchers, geeks)